Parallel Verses
NET Bible
So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living person"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
New American Standard Bible
So also it is written, “The first
King James Version
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Holman Bible
So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being;
International Standard Version
This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
A Conservative Version
And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit.
American Standard Version
So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Amplified
So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].
An Understandable Version
So, it is also written [Gen. 2:7], "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam [i.e., Christ], became the Spirit who gives [never ending] life. [See John 5:21].
Anderson New Testament
So, also, it is written: The first man Adam became a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
Bible in Basic English
And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
Common New Testament
So it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.
Darby Translation
Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.
Godbey New Testament
As indeed it has been written; The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last man Adam, a life-creating spirit.
Goodspeed New Testament
This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.
John Wesley New Testament
And so it is written, The first Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam is a quickening Spirit.
Julia Smith Translation
So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive.
King James 2000
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.
Modern King James verseion
And so it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul," the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul," and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit:
Moffatt New Testament
Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';
Montgomery New Testament
Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.
New Heart English Bible
So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Noyes New Testament
Thus is it also written: "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam a lifegiving spirit.
Sawyer New Testament
And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus, also, it is written - The first man, Adam, became, a living soul, the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And so it is written, There was a first man Adam a living soul; a last Adam a quickening spirit.
Twentieth Century New Testament
That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.
Webster
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.
Weymouth New Testament
In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.
Williams New Testament
This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.
World English Bible
So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Worrell New Testament
So also it has been written, "The first man Adam was a living soul"; the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.
Worsley New Testament
And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.
Youngs Literal Translation
so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,
Themes
Adam » The first man. Creation of
Adam » The first man. Creation of » Brought sin into the world
Body » What type of bodies there are
Jesus Christ » Names of » Adam
Quickening » Of God's people » By the son
Topics
Interlinear
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 15:45
Devotionals containing 1 Corinthians 15:45
References
American
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 15:45
Images 1 Corinthians 15:45
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 15:45
Verse Info
Context Readings
Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living person"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
Cross References
Romans 8:2
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
John 5:21
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
John 6:33
For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
John 6:57
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.
John 1:4
In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
John 4:14
But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life."
John 6:39-40
Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.
John 6:54
The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 14:6
Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Acts 3:15
You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!
Romans 8:10-11
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
1 John 1:1-3
This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life --
John 5:25-29
I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 6:63
The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
John 14:19
In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
John 17:2-3
just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
Romans 5:12-14
So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --
Romans 5:17
For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
Romans 5:21
so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:47-49
The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
Philippians 3:21
who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Revelation 16:3
Next, the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea and it turned into blood, like that of a corpse, and every living creature that was in the sea died.
Revelation 21:6
He also said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life.
Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life -- water as clear as crystal -- pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let the one who hears say: "Come!" And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.